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And if Fox News had been around at the time she would have been trashed as a terrorist. The Texas Department of Education would approve textbooks “balancing” the account by talking about how much money the bus boycott cost the city.

The post is funny, but it perpetuates a common misunderstanding. Parks did not refuse to sit in the back of the bus. She was sitting in the back of the bus. The white seats were all full and she was being told to give up her back-of-the-bus seat for a white man. This is important, because it revealed “separate but equal” as a myth in that there was no equality – express or implied.